Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief,…

Mate, how long did Apollo work as a shepherd?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Apollo · What happens: work

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 510 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief, his son's death, and his punishments» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 work	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 work	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 work	aux
6	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 work	nsubj
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 shepherd	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shepherd	det
10	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past · do-support	Apollo					as a shepherd; Mate vocative; long property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as shepherd=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nine years, which is proper ages, mate, working for Admetus up in Thessaly

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ages	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ages	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ages	cop
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ages	amod
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 years	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ages	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 working	punct
11	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 ages	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 Admetus	case
13	Admetus	Admetus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 working	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 Admetus	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Thessaly	case
16	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nine years	proper ages					tree rules
2	work	gerund	proper ages not said here	Admetus		Thessaly			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent admetus=Material

Option 2

Nine days, which is well quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 quick	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 quick	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 quick	cop
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 quick	advmod
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nine days					quick, well property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nine years, which is proper ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ages	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ages	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ages	cop
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ages	amod
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 years	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nine years	proper ages					tree rules

Option 4

Nine years, which is proper ages, bruv, and he hated every single minute of it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hated	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ages	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ages	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ages	cop
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ages	amod
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 years	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ages	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hated	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hated	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hated	nsubj
13	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 minute	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 minute	amod
16	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hated	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 minute	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nine years	proper ages and bruv					tree rules
2	hate	past	he				minute; year		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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